The only thing keeping South Africa from chaos is the private sector

21 July 2023 - 08:00 By Prinesha Naidoo and Antony Sguazzin

On a recent sunny afternoon, Joshua Radebe patted down asphalt into a neatly filled pothole on a busy Johannesburg street as a motorist tooted and waved to him. Radebe works not for government but for insurance company Discovery’s “Pothole Patrol”. ..

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